Shinjuku Triad Society

Replete with violence, gore and dark humor -- director Takashi Miike's hallmarks -- this first entry in the Black Society trilogy centers on a win-or-die duel between corrupt cop Tatsuhito Kiriya (Kippei Shiina) and crime kingpin Wang (Tomorowo Taguchi). Livid after learning that his younger brother works as an attorney for the vicious Wang, Kiriya wages an all-out war against his adversary when the lawman's sibling vanishes.

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The first entry in Miike's Black Society trilogy is my least favorite of the three. But, of the three films, it is the most recognizably Miike with elements like rape, violence, brutal beatings, arterial spray and a little homosexuality thrown in for good measure. In an attempt to keep his younger brother from entering a life of crime, a cop gets mixed up in a battle between the Japanese Yakuza and the Taiwanese Triad all centered in the seedy Shinjuku district of Tokyo. Both he and his brother are really just trying to fit into a jingoistic society where they are outsiders of mixed racial heritage. Shinjuku is not the best of Miike but it certainly is very much his film. If you like this movie, also watch the other two films in the trilogy, Rainy Dog and Ley Lines.
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